"We are the only country in history that ever deliberately changed its ethnic makeup, and history has few examples of 'diversity' creating a stable society." - Richard Lamm, former governor of Colorado

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., opponent of Afrocentrism, dead at 89

However liberal, he was not a slave to what came to be called political correctness. He spiritedly defended the old-fashioned American melting pot against proponents of multiculturalism, the idea that ethnicities should retain separate identities and even celebrate them.

He elicited tides of criticism by comparing Afrocentrism to the Ku Klux Klan.